Power supply, great choice great price!
just a suggestion and preference o mine, but -

try to get a hx*** on sale if you can.. Same or better function wise..

modular power supplies mean you only plug in the cables you need... Rather than have rverything needing hiding away.. A well ventillated case can cool your cou by multiple degrees.. and 2 additional benefits. Install will be SUPER neat

and install will be easier, less cables flying around everywhere
AND if you find yourself needing more of a certain type of cable, you can plug just that one in for another gpu/hdd

If you can't get a modular for the same price... Well ba luck no biggie lol.

At full load overclocked your system won't draw over 400w(rough estimate), even with a second graphics card all system at 100%, you'd be fine with a 600w psu if you 'd want to save money or go to a higher model.. With my 620w and 6hdd/ssd, i'd happily add another graphics card.

800-1000w suits a 4-6hdd tri/quad sli 5ghz 6 core system..

This also plays into the efficiency curves of a power supply, 75% is where they like to operate most of the time. Yes lots of power supplies have amazing regulators that vary efficiency all over the power draws, but it's something to look at too.

the case for sure is mostly personal preference (looks)
but make sure it's not all plastic and weak... i own a thermaltake spedo, amazing size, super easy to build in... Looks good

2 years later (2.5 now) and my $250 case has got rattley fans, thr plastic squeaks and flexes, pulls off easily, very poor quality.. My antec was better, but the 300mm fan on top shattered when i touched it and it was too small haha

don't be sucked in by the 'thermal chamber' stuff, it cools better without them, i took mine out ages ago.. Plus tey're a huge pain in the ass to attach.. Plus side is it makes the inside of the case look perfecto

cases are a LONG TERM purchase, especially when you're spending $200+ on it

look for as much metal in the design as possible..(lian li's are the benchmark here) with filed edges (jagged case cuts are BAD)

As a guide
lian-li for a classy aluminium (light weight) case that will last forever.. $$$ though

Fractal design cases are idntical to lian li almost but half the price, classy featureless design with LOADS of HDD bays, solid

silverstone cases are about as solid as a lian-li but REALLY funky designs for those into the 'cool looking' cases

thermaltake have a real 'gamer' image, and are usually well featured easy to use cases, but never the strongest

and finally, mid tower if you're going to carry your pc around (friends houses/lans)
full tower is much neater and easier to insall in (literally half the time!) - just a recommendation

full towers tend to weigh an assload, and you're probably going to get more hard drives over the years (i started with 2 for OS.. 2 for data.. Grew to 8, hated the weight, consolidated to 4 and2 SSD's lol)

Your choice for CPU is pretty poor. That chip supports hyper threading and no video games use it or benefit from it. Also you got the K version and choice of water cooling I suspect you got it cause you're interested in overclocking. The current Ivy Bridge CPU's are not very good at overclocking and Sandy Bridge pretty much spanks the $#@! out of them in that department. Here is a much better choice which would save you some more money and with a good overclock give you better performance all around, with much lower temperatures and a longer life of your cpu.

Also since the prices of SSD's are falling down I would pick an SSD up for O.S. and then use the 2TB for storage. With the release of the 840 series by Samsung the 830 SSD are diving in price and are still one of the best available ssd's on the market:

Your X-79 chipset motherboard won't actually work with Ivy Bridge since the X-79 is for Sandy Bridge-E CPUS's. I would suggest a Z77 for an Ivy Bridge CPU if you're going to go that way. A Z77 will work fine also with a i7 2700k and the best all around gaming brands would be Asus, ASRock, and Gigabyte. Since I used these 3 I can recommend them.

regarding samsung SSD if im gonna use it for OS i would just go for the 64GIg you think that's good enough ?

regarding samsung SSD if im gonna use it for OS i would just go for the 64GIg you think that's good enough ?

On paper it looks like it's enough. But Windows does grow overtime, and takes up more space. Right now I have Windows 7 on my 128gb ssd and it's up to 44GB. Some people have said that their windows 7 partitions have taken up over 50gb of space. So your question is pretty hard to answer not knowing what else you'll be doing with your pc. I would go with a 128gb so as to have no worries about running out of space, and you can also fit a program or 2 if you have to, like Photoshop or Sony Vegas so that they perform at their best.

If 64 is the best you can go with then I would suggest doing some light tweaking with windows. Turning off some features like system restore and some unnecessary bloatware to not have it "grow" as much. There are a ton of good windows 7 tweak guides which can help with that.

This particular chip has shown to be a very very good overclock. The money you save by going with this chip can be put either into a nice computer case or a motherboard. Can't really go wrong with this one although it fits more along the "budget" gamer instead of the best of the best of what's out there currently. It will more than suffice in video game performance but there will be other dudes with a bigger e-peen than you.

I myself rock a i5-2500k in my build and am perfectly happy with it.

Just a FYI since this thread has been started AMD has released their beta of their new 12.11 drivers in October which are probably the best drivers ever released by them in a long long time. The 7970 is now considered to be the best single GPU video card on the market:

When this thread started another user asked me about my opinion on what I would put in a pc and I told them I'd go with a GTX 670, but now I don't think I would, I think I'd be jumping ship to team Red for this round.

This particular chip has shown to be a very very good overclock. The money you save by going with this chip can be put either into a nice computer case or a motherboard. Can't really go wrong with this one although it fits more along the "budget" gamer instead of the best of the best of what's out there currently. It will more than suffice in video game performance but there will be other dudes with a bigger e-peen than you.

I myself rock a i5-2500k in my build and am perfectly happy with it.

Just a FYI since this thread has been started AMD has released their beta of their new 12.11 drivers in October which are probably the best drivers ever released by them in a long long time. The 7970 is now considered to be the best single GPU video card on the market:

When this thread started another user asked me about my opinion on what I would put in a pc and I told them I'd go with a GTX 670, but now I don't think I would, I think I'd be jumping ship to team Red for this round.